Linux Consolidation
Every once in a while, a Windows user step in the GNU/Linux world and think things are simply wrong. There is a wonderful example right here. Thinking Linux will ever be consolidated makes no sense. Of course, there are many distributions and it can be complex to find the one that suits your needs the best. Microsoft does make the choice simple by offering a single solution and having a single GNU/Linux offering wouldn’t be any close to freedom.
The main reason why there won’t ever be a successful “United Linux” effort is that there is no such thing as a Linux CEO. Linus Torvalds is only envolved with the kernel development. What makes GNU/Linux an operating system is the whole community around it and all those people have different opinions. Some work on applications, others on packaging and distributing them, but in the end, they are all sharing the results: there is no “waste of ressources”.